The first interview of Werter & Charlotte [graphic]

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Title: The first interview of Werter & Charlotte [graphic]
Alternative Title: First interview of Werter and Charlotte
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Published / Created: [16 October 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Octr. 16, 1782, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Charms, that the bliss of Eden might restore, that Heaven might envy, & mankind adore; I saw - and oh what heart could long rebel, I saw - I lov'd - and bade the world farewell.
Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther.
Mounted on page 9 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35.5 x 44 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 31. Bunbury album.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] [London], [between 1780 and 1794]

Genre: Illustrations
Genre prints
Book illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1782
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 > Illustrations
England > London > 1782
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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